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Summer Tour Grants Announced: In celebration of Phish’s 24-show Summer Tour, the Mockingbird Foundation will announce 11 unsolicited “miracle grants” supporting music programs across the country. Each $1,500 grant will be awarded to a … Continue Reading →

Golf Tournament registration open: Registration is now open for the third annual charity golf tournament for Phish fans – the Mockingbird Foundation‘s Runaway Open. This year’s event will be held Saturday, September 1st (the … Continue Reading →

Carson elementary students to perform with new instruments: The Nevada Appeal posted a very nice follow-up story about an open-house featuring the instruments purchased from Mockingbird’s $16,000 grant to Carson Elementary.

RIP Bill Mitchell: It is with great sorrow that we inform you that our good friend GeneralB (William H Mitchell) has passed away suddenly at the age of 66 (July 23rd, 1951 – … Continue Reading →

Developers: The incorporated purpose of the Foundation is the development and defense of copyrighted intellectual property (IP) about the band and its history – most importantly, a unique collection of data regarding past performances (setlists, song histories, show notes, etc.). The comprehensiveness, integrity, and consistency of that data is unmatched (and unmatchable) thanks to the daily work of hundreds of volunteers for over two decades (in aggregate, over 100K manhours by any conservative estimate). The data serves Phish.net, a half dozen mobile apps, and more than two dozen other websites via API.

Defenders: The Foundation is named for a character in Phish songs who retrieves a collection of “all knowledge inherent in the universe” from the evil King Wilson, who took it from the peaceful and innocent Lizards, and returns it via Colonel Forbin. We share the Gamehendge Lizards’ concern with information becoming “a deadly weapon in the hands of avarice and greed.” The Foundation’s data can thus be viewed in various formats for free through the Phish.net website, and through a set of free/open APIs. While we welcome serious inquiries about licensing that data for use in other formats (including “apps”), and have indeed so licensed the data to more than a half dozen entities, we are nonetheless (and therefore) concerned when others attempt to profit from fan-generated content without remuneration to the Foundation, react swiftly to any such attempts, and thereby actively and vigorously defend the Foundation’s ownership of this data.

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